[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3162 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3162

  To prohibit the Secretary of Labor from implementing certain rules 
         relating to employment of aliens described in section 
 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 12, 2011

Mr. Alexander (for himself, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Boustany) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the Secretary of Labor from implementing certain rules 
         relating to employment of aliens described in section 
 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON IMPLEMENTING CERTAIN RULE.

    (a) Final Rule.--The Secretary of Labor shall not implement, amend, 
or enforce the rule entitled ``Wage Methodology for the Temporary Non-
agricultural Employment H-2B Program'' (Regulatory Identification 
Number 1205-AB61), published on January 19, 2011 (76 Fed. Reg. 3452), 
initially scheduled to go into effect January 1, 2012, amended to go 
into effect on September 30, 2011, and amended to go into effect 
November 30, 2011, or any substantially similar rule.
    (b) Proposed Rule.--The Secretary of Labor shall not finalize, 
implement, amend, or enforce the proposed rule entitled ``Temporary 
Non-agricultural Employment of H-2B Aliens in the United States'' 
(Regulatory Identification Number 1205-AB58), published on March 18, 
2011 (76 Fed. Reg. 15130), or any substantially similar rule.
    (c) Determination of Prevailing Wage.--In determining the 
prevailing wage level under section 212(p) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(p)), the Secretary of Labor shall use 
data from the Occupational Employment Statistics program of the Bureau 
of Labor Statistics and shall comply with paragraph (4) of such section 
with respect to the number of wage levels required of a governmental 
survey used to make such computation.
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